From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LZlBJ-0006Yr-JT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:05:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E964E01C3; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:05:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63CD0E01C3 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:05:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6EBCE471435 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:05:34 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:05:32 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade Message-ID: <20090218120532.6cc16d82@krikkit> In-Reply-To: <3ac129340902180259w686d0115oe0007e39aa91e5ad@mail.gmail.com> References: <865773ce0902151331y6c694eecm8625993dd9bd32a5@mail.gmail.com> <0BCB4989-ACF7-4709-8472-505EA1B59BE9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <3ac129340902180259w686d0115oe0007e39aa91e5ad@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs67 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/+U3YQEomil.TuBdptIK1doh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: a8612a99-55e7-4277-b94e-1db10c8c1cc6 X-Archives-Hash: fb26178d3994b10c6dfbe3581a30b11a --Sig_/+U3YQEomil.TuBdptIK1doh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:59:38 +0900, daid kahl wrote: > I'm pretty sure the kernels used for LiveCDs are absolutely huge because > they just assume you have basically every piece of hardware available, > and thus take much longer to boot (comparing a LiveCD on my machine to > my kernel, maybe 4 to 5 times longer). The kernel itself isn't that large, all the drivers are compiled as modules and anyneeded for booting are stuffed into an initrd. The slow boot times are due to the whole filesystem being stored as a compressed image on a slow medium. --=20 Neil Bothwick Obscenity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers. --Sig_/+U3YQEomil.TuBdptIK1doh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmb+YwACgkQum4al0N1GQMQRACgp3ThWuXI3yJKW/aQDeh0bOqI n30An3udilxiAjsWNHrcIzbntWABA9uY =Oq3v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/+U3YQEomil.TuBdptIK1doh--